Posts by WinHatter

Amazon cloud gets mega storage escape hatch

Car boot sale.

hence the advance of SATA IV & V for eCarSATA & eVanSATA

The VI for eLorrySATA is on the drawing board.

What is the point ???

Man catches MSI laptop with... his arse

Cheeky Booty

That gives the full meaning of "Laptop for arsehole" that Apple has been working on for a while now.

Written on a Mac.

Will Google regret the mega data center?

Sun shipping container

Everybody laughed at them ... but here comes the revenge.

For those who missed the LOL

http://www.sun.com/products/sunmd/s20/

BT's giant new faster broadband boxes blocked

No ugly

Can we see the face of the conservationists ??? So I can decide if they are un-ugly enough to walk the streets of Muswell Hill !!!

Unisys pulls profit from 16% sales drop

Re-Labelling finally paying off.

As El Reg mentioned earlier, selling Dell gear at a premium must be the reason.

Well that allows for workforce reduction ... all is well as long as the customers are willing to pay the premium.

Microsoft emergency fix kills bugs in IE, Visual Studio

M$ $ecurity

Like installing a .NET Firefox plugin that brings the IE InsEcurity to the Fox. (installed by the .NET framwork 3.5)

Plugin that cannot be uninstalled.

I bet they did not kill this one.

Sun tripling RAID protection

TP+De-dupe+HotBackup+..+..+..

The more room the more crap.

Companies are wasting massive amount of monies storing information they think they need, writing to disks, then replicating & backing up.

And when comes the times to recover ... ooops the file system is no longer supported, the piece of software that wrote the data is no longer around.

Microsoft offers EU choice on Windows browsers

Hate M$

But I find it a wee bit harsh to have them cater for competitors through their updates.

MySQL.com sites go dark

so are .de .it .fr ...

but they all point to 213.136.52.29 so that is hardly news.

Conspiracy anybody ???

but mysql.be is up & running but points to 80.84.224.17

Well looks like the MySql cluster is not working great ;o)

Google uncloaks Chrome OS hardware pals

Google taking after M$

from google:

Google Chrome for Linux is in development* and a team of engineers is working hard to bring it to you as soon as possible.

* An early developer channel version is available, but whatever you do, please DON'T DOWNLOAD IT... unless you are a developer or take great pleasure in incomplete, unpredictable and potentially crashing software, and don't mind that it doesn't support Flash, YouTube, printing or some privacy options.

Sounds to me like M$ & Win7. Hey we haven't got the browser but you'll get the OS soon afterwards. But if you like a pile of dung ... go ahead.

Microsoft knew of nasty IE bug a year before attacks

It's all in the name

IE = Internet Exploitability

Of course M$ knew, at the time it was considered a feature. A flaw by design if you will.

But be fair to Apple, no one is using Java on Macs COCOA & Obj-C make Java a heap of pooh. No one, well except the likes of IE users on M$ ... every village has got its idiots.

Microsoft rejigger judges Window 7 a success

Win 7 a success

so now they can move on promoting Win 8.

Will soon be all nostalgic about Vista.

/another round plz

McAfee false-positive glitch fells PCs worldwide

McAfee not that bad.

At least it rightfully targeted "Files belonging to Microsoft Internet Explorer" which should be the default behaviour.

McAfee is pooh as is Norton, AVG might be free but is still a pain, Clamwin does the trick for me as it does not continuously grind in the HDD in the background.

3D TV will won't go primetime in 2011

The final piece of the puzzle is picture quality

Based on Sky's "Quality Programmes" I don't see it as a major issue.

Crap in HD is still crap, applies also to 3D & 3DHD

As for games if the TV does not cover the full visual field + the torso/head rotation angles, I don't see the interest as the brain is already doing the job, and if it were the motion on the screen would not match the inner ear sensors which may end up in falls whilst sitting.

Expect some law suits.

Oracle tried to sell Sun hardware biz

@BlueGreen

my 2p bet on that.

Java middleware has been widely adopted and Oracle laying hand on the specification authority is now in a position to bend Java EE the BEA/Weblogic way rather than the other way around. And that may be a good thing as the EE thing is rather a crappy middleware.

All the Bean container specs will be dictated by Oracle and I guess that is where the monies are. If you want your application server to be J2EE certified, Oracle will be in charge to give (for a fee) you the right to stick the J2EE Certified logo.

So you can kiss the Glassfish good bye as the open source community will only be able to make it "certifiable", which is fine as Oracle will be kind enough to come up with a OpenCertified label that is a dumbed down version of the TRUE OracleCertified that big names will be willing to have and pay for. So IBM will be Oracle buddy on that.

I think the same apply to mySQL you'll get the Opensource fork and the Oracle supported one, guess where the monies will fork.

Solaris will die, because oracle already has a favourite OS (RedHat or CentOS - Xen) and that will be 2 ports of Oracle products that won't be necessary to maintain. Once Sparc Is dead there is no point in having Solaris on x86-x64.

Why Oracle is trying to sell the HW division is weird but then that would not surprise me if they were trying to sell a dead horse.

HDS drive array failure suspected in bank giant's ATM outage

Hardware Failure ???

it is said that it is HW failure and then "HP/EDS have the maintenance contract for the affected system" so I'd say EDS smeggin''up the clustering and blaming it on the hardware.

There are so many layers in a cluster that is likely that no one picked up the signs because no one ever read the logs on a daily basis.

Then again there is always room for the eejit left to their own devices in a data centre unplugging things to plug their own.

Reg reader turns 'homo devil machine' on eBayer

that'll teach him

BTW, I did not know that computer was a gay invention, but that would explain why I have an urge to f@ck IT (the M$ powered one at least).

/... - ... --

Opera to take web back to the old days

Many B(l)ogs & Twitts are annoying enough

Now not only we will be treated to the garbage people are happy to put online and "share" with the rest of them but we'll have a sneak peak at their closets.

ewwwwwwwww

Sun killing 'Rock' Sparc chip?

Makes sense

Oracle never intended to carry on the Sparc line ... there is nothing Oracle cannot achieve on a, intel or amd.

Plus it's better if Sun does the slaughtering rather than Oracle. If it were Oracle to do it, they may have some issues with the SEC & other anti-trust thingies.

Microsoft fans call for Opera boycott

@Defiant

You got it all wrong didn' ya?

You should just got rid of M$hyte ... it feels even better & safer.

Why don't go buy a Mac.

Nurse Lovelace gives hardened lag 55-hour stiffy

caused difficulty in his marriage

and being thrown in the joint did not cause any harm to to his marriage nor the bipolar disorder ???

IT : Impetuous Todger . I Tresume

GPS-guided wreckers flatten wrong house

A fool with a tool is still a fool

Some fooking eejits should not be allowed to take any decision and should not be allowed anywhere near a "technological" tool being a jackhammer or a toaster.

The only up in that story is there was no one in the house .... hmm are we sure of that.

Behind Microsoft's IE-free, Windows-for-Europe ploy

I hate windows

mainly because I have to work with.

But isn't it a bit unfair that Apple is allowed to have Safari, Quicktime, DVD player, iTunes, iLife & iWork shipped in their OS and on their hardware exclusively?

OK there is a small fee to get the full version of Quicktime (which they call PRO) and iWork ... if that all it takes to avoid legal case for M$ I would say their lawyers are stoopid, and they deserve what is coming at them.

SAP hits on-demand button

Huge leap indeed

from ball and chain software to software as a service. But will they deliver.

SAP are draining their customers' sap and it does not even taste good on pancakes.

SAP's customers are the real saps

SAP are sapping their customers foundations

and SAP will sass you up ... or is it SaaS.

Russian porn starlet brands DD jubs

@Chemical dye

spunk resistant, I presume.

/the flasher's coat please.

Windows 7 boss predicts 'modest' initial shipments

Startling piece of news

init ???

Well if the "drag & drop" on a shell window is not re-enabled in 7 I'll cease to use Windows when XP is no longer supported by the latest motherboards.

Ellison pits Sun and Oracle against AJAX and Google

1 Thing

"fantastic UIs in Java"

Java UIs (Swing or AWT) are probably the most-est ugliest thing in the IT industry ... JavaFX is indeed only butt ugly.

JavaFX must stand for Fashion eXpelled.

Windows 7 to ship October 22

Home Basic for developing markets

How thoughtful ... and well phrased to say that M$ wants a share of the third world money.

At least every Linux version/flavour makes sense Light, Workstation & Server (the number of distributors seems a bit too much though) and Linux distros don't make a point to make you feel you belong to some sort of inferior caste and therefore you need the cheapest (features mainly & monies in a lesser measure).

<SNIGGER>

"Windows 7 code will be finalized " as if!!!!

</SNIGGER>

Microsoft guns down 13 unlucky products

13 ... lucky number

Vista Primate is the only remaining version I presume, well that is what you get merging Premium & Ultimate. How unfortunate but true.

The 7 versions of Windows 7 have also been dropped, no more Doc Grumpy Sleepy Happy Bashful Sneezy ... only the Dopey version sorry again.

/the Snow White Leopard pelt für me please.

Firefox users flip out over sneak MS add-on

Remove ...

"How to" available at

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article08-600

And yes it iz a fooking pain in the blucking ass.

M$ don't export your vulnerabilities to other's browsers. Fix your pooh.

Audi working on electric R8?

Hybrid V12

You would then be able to generate your own leccy, for the car and the house, even the neighbours.

I'd agree with Jason, the fortunates were/are wasting petrol they'll waste leccy.

Greenpeace pushes Ballmer to intervene on climate

M$ eco friendly

What ??? M$ wasting CPU cycles ... no way. Have a look at Vista, it is wasting CPU cycles, plastic cases, and most of all, because of the downgrade, the amount of CO2 I'm producing everyday fulminating against XP is massive.

Twitter suffering chronic banality, diagnoses Dr House

What ho!

I guess Hugh 's got all the necessary material from his Wooster character.

I say !!!

That twitter jimbles

Oh dash it !!!

I'd rather toddle off.

/Tweed - Right ho Jeeves.

Microsoft loses $200m in Texas Hold 'em up patent suit

@Greg

They usually take the case before the court/jurisdiction that is most likely to hit the defendant the hardest.

Well, does not seem to be a sure thing,

How about a little bit of your own medicine M$!!!

Palm Pre to sell like hot cakes, Sprint CEO proclaims

$199 a pop for a hot cake

from the specs I can foresee that the hot cakes will go stale at best,

Wait for a while and they will be on sale at Poundland (Buckland rather).

Credit Management meets computer automation

Prexisting condition

A while back the Croydon Council invited me before the court . I paid but they were unable to trace my payment.

So I wrote, mentioned the cheque number even provided them with a photocopy. They did not care and they went on with the default procedure ... my salute came from a certified copy of the cheque obtained from the bank only a couple of days before the due (court) date.

They've never issued any formal apology ...

In the end I found out why they lost track of my payments : they changed my "Customer number" half way through the instalment book. And those eejits never were able to link the 2 accounts with my forename & name that are most probably a unique combination worldwide.

The company "handling" the payments was Liberata.

Facebook users warned over renewed phishing assault

Unbooking believable

How daft can people be ???

I'm sure that the saying is true ... given that some are using the same password for their eBay, session & emails ...

Use a lame password on that kind of social website because we have a lame lifestyle but banking accounts should be treated to stronger password.

OK I'm being lame in my statement but lames are being bankrobbed. Excellent!!!

Unsafe at any speed: Memcpy() banished in Redmond

M$ecurity AHAHAHAH

@Peter, right you are ... with M$ it's putting a MASSIVE padlock to heavy for the structural strength of the door and anyway there is a man-sized cat door.

plus you can always remove most of the safeguards from the C/C++ headers to poke where you should not. And anyway someone will make available the very same function and last assembler is still accessible from C.

Mac update has 3D issues with VMware Fusion, ATI card

Brought to you by

VMalWare

If Parallel Desktop is unaffected ... means VMWare is to blame.

Anyway I've got a Mac & a PC in the end it costs less than losing my time and my nerves.

Film industry turns up P2P heat on Carter

Old fashioned farts

Looks like some never learn. It's an uphill battle FACTual morons, so instead of pushing some idiotic regulation that will be unenforceable why don't you FACT off and think on your feet.

Try to get the most of it, things are getting shared that is rather a good point for the artists.

Push foward a flat fee like the TV licensing fee that any internet user will pay. Yeah some will argue that they do not download. But if it becomes legal and they paid for, I'm sure, they will.

Get counters and spread the fee.

Linutop 2

Why BFM TV ???

Isn't it any hot anchor in Zee Blighty ???

1GB though is a bit tiny even xfce wise.

Microsoft insists debt issue not a prelude to SAP bid

Bloated software running on bloated OS

That makes sense.

Let's hope it goes through I'd be happy to see all SAP customers forced to M$ Excel at the same price. OOOps I'm being told that SAP customers are in fact already using M$ spreadsheets to feed SAP CRM because it is a humongous piece of pooh.

Chip cooler launches liquid nitro at CPUs

TNT with your fruit cake???

@Christopher Ahrens looks like you went with the bang of thermos N2 filled.

@Steve well that would explain why people in bars are all eejits, the cause is in fact not alcohol but leaky N2 cannisters that lower the O2 level.

The only interesting part is you could inflate your tyres with the N2 leftover, bigger molecules hey.

/the hot air balloon membrane.

Taiwanese rat snake bites Taiwanese trouser snake

he saw the big snake

yeah but how large and poisonous was the serpent ???

/sssssssss

sorry !!!

please don't ban me ;o)

Apple: No Jesus on the Jesus Phone

Holy S

The guy managed to get quite a public exposure for such a lame app.

God's Jobs I presume.

/the one with the jesus stenciled tortilla.

ModBook Mac tablet turns up in Blighty

@Andrew Langhorn

Thanks to Player_16 for posting that "advisor" link.

No wonder why this stuff is butt ugly, such a bunch of mingers could never come up with anything aesthetic.

That answers why Apple are not doing anything aboot it ... they still haven't noticed it's a Mac.

Larry Ellison: SPARC buy means we're just like Apple

SPARC is dead.

Oracle operates at a 70% margin, Sun a mere 40% ... no go where the money is :

Cheap CPUs in generic Boxes (HP Dell ... whatever),

2006 bechmarks (Q4) SPECfp_rate_base2006

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server

(benchmark = 212, discounted price: $31,077.00)

Dell Inc. PowerEdge M600 (Intel Xeon E5450, 3.00 GHz)

(benchmark = 71.7, price $3,711.00)

that makes the Sun's benchmark point 3 times more expensive than the Dell's one.

Now call me stoopid but in the current downturn SPARC is dead as a can of spam.

/need a $ icon.

Car-prang secretary bites off boss's todger

Sin Chew are late.

April Fool's Day missed by complete month.

A serious rearending of the van tends to OHHpen the jaws not snap.

As for him that'll teach him to be a cheap of the cheap.

Microsoft crimps products after second wave of job cuts

Less people

less bloated ideas faster system ... well that suits me.

Hope only the bloaters get the sack ... but if HR is as bloated as Vista expect disparagement.